Allowance (money)
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of allowing
"He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room"
(2) A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
(3) An amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
"An allowance for profit"
(4) An amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)
"Travel allowance"
"My weekly allowance of two eggs"
"A child's allowance should not be too generous"
(5) A sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
(6) A reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
verb
(7) Put on a fixed allowance, as of food
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
- Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --
- Acknowledgment.
- The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --
- That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
- I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- William Makepeace Thackeray.
- Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
- After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
- A child's allowance; pocket money.